Patrick Lantschner is Associate Professor in the Department of History at University College London. He works on cities and political order across Europe, and the Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages. His book The Logic of Political in Medieval Cities: Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370–1440 (2015) won the 2016 Bronisław Geremek Prize for outstanding first book. Maarten Prak was, until his retirement in 2021, Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University. He is an expert on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, particularly the Dutch Golden Age. He is the author of Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World c. 1000–1789 (2018).

• List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List of contributors to volume II; Acknowledgements; Editor's introduction to the series; 1. Introduction: urban Europe from the middle ages to 1850 Patrick Lantschner and Maarten Prak; 2. Cities and complex settlements in early medieval Europe, c. 500–1150 Caroline Goodson and Christopher P. Loveluck; Part I. Regions: Mediterranean Europe: 3. Italy in the later middle ages, c. 1100–1400 Andrea Zorzi; 4. Early modern Italy Fabrizio Nevola; 5. Medieval Islamic Europe Eduardo Manzano Moreno and Eneko López Martínez de Marigorta; 6. The Iberian peninsula Flocel Sabaté; 7. Byzantine and Ottoman Europe Grigor Boykov; Atlantic and North Sea Europe: 8. The low countries from the middle ages to the Dutch Revolt Jelle Haemers; 9. The Dutch Republic, 16th –18th centuries Marjolein 't Hart; 10. The British Isles, aka the 'Atlantic Archipelago' Phil Withington; 11. France Boris Bove; 12. The Hanseatic world and Scandinavia Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz and Sofia Gustafsson; Central and Eastern Europe: 13. The German urban world Stefan Ehrenpreis; 14. East Central and Eastern Europe Katalin Szende; Europe around the world: 15. European urbanisation in the colonial Americas Vera S. Candiani; 16. European urbanisation in Asia Zoltán Biedermann; Part II. Themes: Conceptualising Cities: 17. Cities in European political thought and practice Manuel Herrero Sánchez; 18. Representations of the city Martina Stercken; The Urban Fabric: 19. Cathedrals Norbert Nussbaum; 20. Neighbourhoods and urban zoning Colin Arnaud; 21. Memory and heritage Marco Folin; Urban Societies and Urban Economies: 22. Urbanisation and migration Jan de Vries; 23. Commercial revolution and trade in the Middle Ages Georg Christ; 24. European cities and the early modern Atlantic world Klaus Weber; 25. Inclusion and exclusion in urban industries Bert De Munck and Peter Stabel; 26. Consumption Bruno Blondé and Jessica Dijkman; 27. Environment and health G. Geltner; 28. Higher education Willem Frijhoff; Urban Societies between Order and Disorder: 29. The gendering of the city Clare Haru Crowston; 30. Urban revolt, citizenship and town politics Christian D. Liddy; 31. Urban religious communities in the later Middle Ages Miri Rubin; 32. Religious communities and the reformation Graeme Murdock; 33. Violence and crime Manon van der Heijden; 34. The military city Regula Schmid; The Age of Revolutions: 35. The French revolution and the cities Curtis G. Murphy; 36. European cities in the first era of industrialisation (c. 1760–1850) Ulrich Pfister; Index.